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System Properties Comparison H2GIS vs. Interbase vs. Oracle Berkeley DB vs. PostGIS

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Name

Description

Spatial extension of H2

Light-weight proven RDBMS

originally from Borland

Widely used in-process key-value store

Spatial extension of PostgreSQL

Primary database model

Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

supports sorted and unsorted key sets
Native XML DBMS

in the Oracle Berkeley DB XML version

Spatial DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Score	0.08
Rank	#368	Overall
	#7	Spatial DBMS

Score	4.08
Rank	#75	Overall
	#41	Relational DBMS

Score	2.01
Rank	#126	Overall
	#21	Key-value stores
	#3	Native XML DBMS

Score	21.72
Rank	#29	Overall
	#1	Spatial DBMS

Website

www.h2gis.org

www.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/berkeleydb.html

postgis.net

Technical documentation

www.h2gis.org/docs/home

docs.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

docs.oracle.com/cd/E17076_05/html/index.html

postgis.net/documentation

Developer

CNRS

Embarcadero

Oracle

originally developed by Sleepycat, which was acquired by Oracle

Initial release

2013

1984

1994

2005

Current release

InterBase 2020, December 2019

18.1.40, May 2020

3.4.2, February 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

LGPL 3.0

commercial

Open Source

commercial license available

Open Source

GPL v2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

C, Java, C++ (depending on the Berkeley DB edition)

Server operating systems

Android
iOS
Linux
OS X
Windows

AIX
Android
FreeBSD
iOS
Linux
OS X
Solaris
VxWorks
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

export as XML data possible

yes

only with the Berkeley DB XML edition

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL interfaced based on SQLite is available

yes

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Java

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Object Pascal
PHP
Ruby

.Net

Figaro is a .Net framework assembly that extends Berkeley DB XML into an embeddable database engine for .NET
others

Third-party libraries to manipulate Berkeley DB files are available for many languages
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)

3rd party binding
Perl
Python
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

based on H2

yes

Interbase procedure and trigger language

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

only for the SQL API

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

yes

based on PostgreSQL

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

based on H2

Interbase Change Views

Source-replica replication

yes

based on PostgreSQL

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

Multiversion concurreny control

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

yes

based on H2

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

based on PostgreSQL

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